Aristide Tarnagda

Que ta volonté soit Kin de Sinzo Aanza

Archive 2020
Theatre
Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe – Ateliers Berthier
junejun 30 - july – july 30

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Text, Sinzo Aanza
With Ibrahima Bah, Jeanne Diama, Serge Henri, Ami Akofa Kougbenou, Daddy Nkuanga Mboko, Paterne Mbongou, Hilaire Nana, and Rémi Yameogo
Stage design, Charles Ouitin Kouadjo
Lighting, Mohamed Kabore
Costumes, Léa Vayrou
Produced by Théâtre Acclamations ; and Les Récréâtrales (Ouagadougou)
Coproduced by Comédie de Caen – CDN de Normandie ; and Théâtre Jean Vilar de Vitry-sur-Seine
In association with Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe (Paris) ; and Festival d’Automne à Paris
Event organized within the framework of the Africa 2020 Season

Arisitide Tarnagda, the Burkina Faso-born director of the Récréâtrales festival in Ouagadougou distils the razor-sharp writing of the Congolese writer Sinzo Aanza in a a pared-down staging. Que ta volonté soit Kin explores the redeeming powers of our dreams in the context of a lawless metropole with no faith in anything.

« The official story is not a sufficiently dazzling one. I do not have the right to state out loud that it is a paltry one. Nobody has that right. » But nothing can prevent Lily from conjuring up another world into which she transports the gendarme Pilate and her friend Sophie who, similar to herself is beset by misfortune and homelessness. As we discover the woes of the three characters in his piece Que ta volonté soit Kin, Sinzo Aanza hollows out a portrait of a Kinshasa in the throes of its religious demons and murky violence. Employing language that shifts freely between the poetic and the cutting, with humour and cynicism battling it out, and in which the verb becomes a political act in itself, the Congolese writer invites us to delve deep into the imagination in order to bring the real up to the surface.

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